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If you look carefully on the aerial photo, there is a residential street that follows the perimeter of the highway ramp. There are actually two cars driving on it in the photo. This is the actual Barney Circle, which you can see feeds both 17th St. into the neighborhood to the north, as well as onto Pennsylvania Ave. at the west end of the roadway.
My obnoxiously large, but sufficiently detailed 1960 Official DC map shows a quarter circle between 9:00 (K St.) and 12:00 (17th St.), with Pa. Ave at 10:00, where it ends now. It does not show the circle continuing to the east of 17th St. as it does now (even though it doesn't seem to lead anywhere. Red dashed lines are superimposed to show where the new freeway portions are proposed-under construction.
Why would any jurisdiction issue a highway map that is so big, you would have to get out of your car and spread it out on the ground in order to be able to read it? This sucker's 3 1-2 wide and 4 1-2 feet long! One would think it was a wall map, but it is conveniently folded to fit in your glove compartment.
